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...prime prizes in Franco's drive on Bilbao. As was expected, Anarchists ran berserk for a few hours before the city was abandoned, murdered many a suspected Rightist sympathizer. As the Rightists moved in a few faces scowled from the sidewalks, but for the most part Bilbaína housewives who stayed in the town greeted the invaders with shrill enthusiasm. For week after week they had lived largely on constant gunfire and bombing. For a while at least there would be an end to fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: On to Santander | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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